Tag: platform

  • Platform as a Product, 9 years later

    Platform as a Product, 9 years later

    Nine years after the platform as a product paper first came out, Caleb Washburn and I went through what changed. The answer is mostly “not much,” and the good bit is why developers keep asking for Kubernetes clusters they don’t actually want.

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  • Stochastic Smart Talk, the DIY Platform Trap, and Strategic AI Not Spending – Related to your interests, Friday

    Also: hardened images everywhere, quarterly Java patch tours, Wells Fargo’s complicated employment math, and a Highgate gravestone. Related to your interests Silo busters – a unified platform needs a unified team – “This matters because it removes the structural excuse for fragmentation. When a single platform surfaces all the controls a unified team needs, there…

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  • Three reasons why a “batteries included” platform is urgently needed right now

    Removing product as a bottleneck: The conversation around PaaS is urgent again, and AI is why. Code generation can speed up your development cycles, building and pushing features faster, but production delays will persist if you’re still deploying at the same speed as before. To avoid eroding the benefits of code generation, you need to deploy…

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  • Buy your platform, AI edition

    Building an internal agentic AI platform in banking or insurance demands a multi-year orchestration engineering commitment with a regulatory surface area that most organizations underestimate. [Bryan Ross] Tinkers and opexmaxxers take in huge risks when they decide to build their own platforms. And it usually fails, for at least seven reasons. 🔗 The hidden cost…

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  • Kubernetes is the bottleneck, and you can get through it with a platform

    Kubernetes is the bottleneck, and you can get through it with a platform

    Photo by Daniel Bryant. Another great KubeCon talk from Abby Bangser imploring the Kubernetes people to remember how important platforms are: they make all of his stuff usable for developers and valuable to the organizations that run it all. Without a platform, you’re just put another bottleneck in place. Also, see the go she started,…

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  • Your Boss Doesn’t Know What to Do With AI Enterprise AI Has a Product-Market Fit Problem. Enterprise AI isn’t stalled because the models are weak. It’s stalled because we haven’t discovered product-market fit inside the enterprise yet. You don’t find real AI value by theorizing in workshops. You find it by running experiments for months…

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  • How much does it cost to build an internal developer platform? – Tanzu Catsup

    This week’s Tanzu Catsup is about how much you need to pay people to build your own internal developer platform: I think building your own platform is a terrible idea, especially for larger organizations. My co-host Tony ran the platform for Home Depot and now talks with other platform teams a lot, so I wanted…

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  • A project is what IBM delivered at e&. Custom integration, IBM Consulting on-site, bespoke architecture tailored to one customer’s requirements. It works, but it doesn’t scale. Every enterprise becomes its own implementation, with its own timeline, its own integration challenges, its own dependency on consulting availability. “A platform is repeatable. Channel partners can sell it.…

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  • Why people build their own platforms anyway – resume-driven development and the joy of building

    Every list of reasons to build your own platform leaves off the real ones: resume-driven development, and that builders like building things. Do you fight that, or adapt the platform philosophy to it?

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  • Vibes, Code, Consequences

    Vibes, Code, Consequences

    A selection from my weblog and elsewhere since last time… Original content Whitney goes to KubeCon – a cross-over episode from SDT: “This week, Whitney Lee joins us to discuss KubeCon news, Coding Assistants, and conference tips. Plus, vegan food and note-taking recommendations.” What is a platform? – Tony and I start a new weekly,…

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  • Kubernetes, AI, and platform engineering, build, build, build

    AI is here. It’s hungry. It’s expensive. And Kubernetes is the only thing big enough to feed it. … Kubernetes is no longer the platform for apps. It’s becoming the substrate for AI-driven systems. And then you add platform engineering to build a platform around it for self-service access to AI, so long as you…

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  • Feels a little bit like a platform standard so powerful that you need an AI front-end to make it usable by mere mortals.

    Yes: Kubernetes started as a way to orchestrate containers, but its true innovation lies in its API model. The declarative resource pattern, with its desired state, actual state and continuous reconciliation, has proven to be a universal abstraction. It works for workloads, infrastructure, policies and more. That universality is why Kubernetes has become the foundation…

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  • How Tanzu Platform Fixes the AI Deployment Problem

    You need a proper AI platform: Interested? Try a 90 day trial of the Tanzu Platform: https://trytanzu.ai.

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  • Larry’s AI

    Larry’s pitch for a full-stack, private cloud AI platform. And, here, you can see someone trying to explain more. 🔗 Ellison’s AI vision for Oracle – robot surgeons meet enterprise data reality

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  • Why you should buy your internal developer platform

    Why you should buy your internal developer platform

    Building your own internal developer platform is a lot of work, buy it instead Here’s a transcript: One of the reasons internal developer platforms are so valuable is because they do so much, and that’s something that you run into if you’re trying to build your own platform instead of buy it. The goal of…

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  • Kubernetes Isn’t Enough for a Production-Ready Platform – Yeah. You should buy your platform instead of build it.

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  • Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management

    Internal Developer Platform marketing: the people, the community management

    Driving Platform Adoption: Community Is Your Value If you want developers to actually use your platform, you’ve got to give them more than APIs and automation. You need a community. In the third piece in our platform marketing series, Rita and I look at how the most successful platform teams invest in support forums, internal…

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  • Resume-driven Development

    Resume-driven Development

    Good wastebook list this episode, but first… Even the Germans suffer from RDD Some people actually did a study on resume-driven development. I thought it might be a joke at first, but, no: it appears to be serious. I’m working on refreshing a paper on the pitfalls of building your own application platform (“DIY platforms”),1…

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  • Drive Scale And Speed With The Platform Org Model – 59% of respondents have using a platform instead of whole bunch of different platforms as a priority. // Enterprise want the benefits of centralized, standardized IT stacks. Always. DIY platforms and shadow platforms (sprawl od accidental platforms) is often a bad idea. Your platform needs…

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  • A Simple Definition Of “Platform” – “a product that supports the creation and/or delivery of other products.”

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